# كرسي
## Arabic

* Root
* ك ر س (k r s)
* 5 terms

### Etymology

Deemed with such a shape borrowed from Aramaic כּוּרְסְיָא / ܟܘܪܣܝܐ (kursəyā). Compare Biblical Hebrew כִּסֵּא (kisséʔ), Ugaritic 𐎋𐎒𐎜 (ksủ /⁠kussīʾu⁠/) and Akkadian 𒄑𒄖𒍝 (kussûm). Ultimately from Sumerian 𒄑𒄖𒍝 ($^{g̃eš}$gu-za /⁠guza⁠/, “chair”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kur.sijj/

### Noun

كُرْسِيّ • (kursiyy) m (plural كَرَاسِيّ (karāsiyy) or كَرَاسٍ (karāsin))
* chair, seat
* seating
* throne
    Synonym: عَرْش (ʕarš)
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:255:وَسِعَ كُرْسِيُّهُ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَwasiʕa kursiyyuhu s-samāwāti wa-l-ʔarḍaHis throne extends over the heavens and the earth
* capital of a column, chapiter
** a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān]‎, volume 4, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1869, page 96 line 18:
* chair for lectures, lectern, pulpit, cathedra, a kind of desk upon which a document is placed
* pillar of a bridge
* gun carriage, the mounting of a mangonel
    Synonym: (later) قَنْدَاق (qandāq)
** 975–997, محمد بن أحمد الخوارزمي [muḥammad ibn ʕaḥmad al-ḵwārizmī], edited by Gerlof van Vloten, مفاتيح العلوم [mafātīḥ al-ʕulūm], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1895, page 249 line 1:

#### Derived terms

* آيَةُ ٱلْكُرْسِيِّ (ʔāyatu l-kursiyyi)

#### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: كرسي (kursi)
* Gulf Arabic: كرسي (kərsi)
* Moroccan Arabic: كرسي (kursi)
* → Azerbaijani: kürsi, kürsü
* → Chagatai: کرسی
** Uzbek: kursi
* → Kashmiri: کُرسی (kursī)
* → Malay: kerusi
** Baba Malay: krosi
*** → Javanese: ꦏꦿꦺꦴꦱꦶ (krosi)
** Indonesian: kursi, korsi
** → Brunei Malay: kerusi, karusi, kursi
** → Javanese: ꦏꦸꦂꦱꦶ (kursi), ꦏꦿꦺꦴꦁꦱꦶ (krongsi)
* → Malay: kursi
* → Ottoman Turkish: كرسی (kürsi)
** Turkish: kürsü
** → Crimean Tatar: kürsü
** → Armenian: քյուրսի (kʻyursi), քուրսի (kʻursi)
* → Pashto: کرسي (kursi)
* → Persian: کرسی (korsi)
** → Hindustani:
*** Hindi: कुरसी (kursī)
*** Urdu: کرسی (kursī)
** → Punjabi:
*** Gurmukhi script: ਕੁਰਸੀ (kursī)
*** Shahmukhi script: کُرسِی (kursī)
* → Turkmen: kürsi
* → Telugu: కుర్చీ (kurcī)

### References

* Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1098
* Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht (1885) Kleinere Schriften‎ (in German), volume 1, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, pages 181–182
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎ (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 22
* Nöldeke, Theodor (1875) Mandäische Grammatik‎ (in German), Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, page 128
* Ullmann, Manfred (1959–1970) Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache. Band I (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, pages 126b–127b

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic كُرْسِيّ (kursiyy).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkur.si/

### Noun

كرسي • (kursi) m (plural كراسي (karāsi))
* chair, seat

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic كُرْسِيّ (kursiyy).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kur.si/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

كرسي • (kursi) m (plural كراسي (krāsi) or كراسة (krāsa))
* chair
    Synonym: شلية (šalya)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic كُرْسِيّ (kursiyy).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kur.si/, [ˈkur.si]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

### Noun

كرسي • (kursi) m (plural كراسي (karāsi))
* chair